FREE PRESS OR PROPAGANDA MACHINE?

On Sunday, July 15, 1996, CBS aired a
segment on its program "60 Minutes" about a group of Nazi officers
who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler during World War II. It was
noted how these men were portrayed as heroes during the program.

MURDER IS WRONG, RIGHT?

Assassination or conspiring to
assassinate the President of the United States is a federal crime
punishable by death or life imprisonment. Those who have assassinated
former presidents have left names loaded with infamy in the history
books. Names such as James Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald evoke
the memory of great public enemies in the minds of most people.

In light of society's almost universal
condemnation of assassination of presidents and other political
figures, it is interesting to see how the media can portray as
"heroic" the conspiracy to murder the leader of another country. The
apparent contradiction of values goes unnoticed by the public because
it is assumed it is okay to murder someone who is "bad".

WHOSE WORD ARE YOU TAKING?

It is almost universally assumed by most
people who have never met Adolf Hitler that he was a "bad" person.
These conclusions were drawn from historical and eyewitness accounts
of certain events that many of us did not witness personally. Since
he was a "bad" person, it is naturally assumed that those who were
plotting to murder him were "good".

On the other hand, Presidents Lincoln and
Kennedy have been elevated to virtual presidential sainthood by the
same subjective estimation. Most of us have not known these men
personally and do not have an intimate knowledge of their lives and
characters. The popular estimation of these men is based on
historical accounts. They get to wear the label of "good" and
therefore their killers must have been "bad".

LABELS ARE RELATIVE

Another example of the media's subjective
labeling may be seen in the Oklahoma City bombing case. Mr. Timothy McVeigh has been accused by the
government of bombing the federal building in that city. The media
has used words such as "terrorist" to describe him and "terrorist
attack" to describe the incident. President Clinton has called the
bombers "evil cowards". What is not considered by most people is that
Mr. McVeigh has been trained by the federal government to kill "bad
people", and was sent to the Middle East for that purpose. At that
time his official designation was not "terrorist" but "soldier".

One may also consider the American
Revolution. The British were the lawful government of the colonies at
the outbreak of the war. Many of the men who fought in the
Continental Army committed acts of sabotage and arson against the
British. Perhaps the Loyalist newspapers called these "terrorist
acts" if they used such language back then. They were certainly acts
punishable by death; yet, in this day we have 4th of July parades and
celebrate those acts with fireworks and picnics. Perhaps Mr. McVeigh
sees himself as fighting for the same ideals as the "terrorists" of
the American Revolution.

HIDDEN MESSAGE FORMS OPINION

News and history are not examined by
today's media and schools in an objective, factual manner. It is the
emotional, subjective context in which the stories are related that
forms the opinions that most people hold. While the media makes a
pretense for examining the facts, as in the "60 Minutes" example
cited above, the facts are flavored with an insidious emotion. This
is especially effective in the television and radio medium where one
may receive information without the intellectual reasoning mechanism
actively engaged.

A CONSPIRACY OF CONTROL

The news media is either owned outright
or controlled by powerful financial interests in the world. As
various countries institute "democratic reforms", they must
necessarily allow a "free press". This press is not free by any
means, but is a tool in the invisible hand of the international money
elite for controlling the nations.

Most people have formed their belief system
based on what they have watched on their television or read in the
paper. When people become concerned about a certain problem, i.e. church
arsons or other "hate crimes" that the media is talking about, they
express a desire for the government to do something, thinking they are
expressing their own concerns. They do not understand that they are
merely acting out the agenda of the true powers that be; thus, there
remains an illusion of a free press and a free society.

Whatever crimes Hitler may have committed
against humanity, none were so diabolical and deceptive as the
methods of control used by the New World Order today. People have
lost their ability to think and function as human beings and have
sunk to the animal level. They have become fully dependent on their
master, not discerning that their end will be the slaughter house.

Written 8/96

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